When we are stuck in a bear market, it is easy to assume that if we stop giving, it won't hurt anyone and will help our bottom line.
If organizations only lost one giver among the hundreds or thousands that contribute, then it would be like taking a single drop from a pail of water. It isn't noticable.
But, that isn't the case during recessions. Large percentages of people tend to stop giving to worthy causes. Those organizations are left without the means to function properly.
I started this week's topic with a reference to mission giving. When that giving stops, so do the mission works. The pastors of those operations have to return home to drum up more support. This can be a huge hinderance on the spread of the Gospel.
I love the story of the widow woman who Jesus observed giving all that she had to the work of the Temple. She was human, just like you and I. I'm sure she sweated giving to God what she believed she should do. But, in the end, she gave all she had, because she trusted God to do what he said.
And God noticed.
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